Richard Nixon

TOGETHER ’22 aims to mimic EXPLO ’72 — which provided hints about the rising conservative evangelical tide.

Watergate led to a landmark law designed to limit the influence of money in politics. Today, some say the scandal isn’t what’s illegal, it’s what’s legal.

Herblock, Garry Trudeau, and others created memorable cartoons that skewered Nixon and Watergate, making the era a boom time for political satire.

Amidst the January 6 hearings, the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon’s scandal reminds us that it has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.

U.S.-China relations have evolved from tense standoffs to a complex mix of intensifying diplomacy, growing international rivalry, and increasingly intertwined economies.

Communists fighting the color line. Baseball players resisting owners. Baseball's untold history of struggles against racial injustice and labor exploitation.

An unpublished memoir reveals how the world’s most famous child actress became a star of the environmental movement.

At a time of upheaval, we want to believe that better leaders have the power to change the course of history. But counterfactuals are never simple.

The debate over abortion is an important part of the story of polarization in American politics, but it is not its genesis.

Fifty years ago, a fame-seeker shot the polarizing politician five times, paralyzing him from the waist down.

The first Roe v. Wade leaks happened fifty years ago.

Today, the holiday is just a chance for ExxonMobil to release nonsensical ad campaigns. But once upon a time, it was a radical success story.

Washington has long been a disproportionately gay city—a mecca for clever, ambitious young men who want to escape their hometowns’ prying eyes.

One focus of the 1960s struggle for civil rights in the North were the construction industries of Philadelphia, New York and Cleveland.

Ukraine’s wartime communications strategies have roots in World War II.

The number one complaint: Children had to go to school in the dark.

Hal Brands urges the U.S. to make China and Russia “pay exorbitantly” for their policies. History shows that has never worked.

How microeconomic reasoning took over the very institutions of American governance.

Bringing to light the kinship among American wars—and, by extension, their true significance—requires situating them in a single historical framework.

A historian of global health explains how the lack of ICU beds in low-income communities is the result of government spending cuts dating back to the 1970s.